Dusty Chalk

Condolences. That's gotta hit where it hurts. I need to figure out how to get in touch with my first girlfriend (2nd grade)...

You might like Babymetal. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7NxgEZEKOQ

I'm really enjoying the Tim Powers. I really enjoy being shown the hero tropes from the perspective of the would-be hero, whose thoughts don't match at all what we would think of from a Jason Statham or an Ahnold character.

I'm going to have a gyro sammich for lunch. Wait, is this insider trading? Dammit!

That's pretty dark. ^ Is it just me, or does that baby's elbow look like an exposed boob, like she was breastfeeding?

I use the RabbitAir -- it's good, but I don't clean it as often as I should, so I'm not the best judge. It uses the layered approach, so if you don't clean your outermost filter, then it clogs up, and the second layer has to start doing the work of the first. My only complaint is that it will only ever shoot air upwards -- it's only quietest when it's on its lowest setting, so I would like to have it shooting directly at my face when I sleep. And I can't. It's still quieter than the Honeywell QuietCare that I used to have, but not by much.

Hey, I used to get 'tomorrow' wrong, too...and I still have to think about desert/dessert and I still want to spell address 'adress', but I manage to get redress (as in a wound) right every time. I actually used to be really good at spelling, started deteriorating the more I hung out on the internet. When one sees words misspelled repeatedly, one stops having the correct spelling firmly in place (in one's memory). How do you console a grammar nazi? "They're their there." fnar fnar fnar

Apparently, Alestorm composed this song, just so that someone could make this joke:

China -- they declared a 7.5?% drop in the Shanghai composite index, and since everyone thought/knows that China is backing the US' debt, and everyone else is pretty much already up shit creek, so no-one can back China if they crash, it'll cause a domino effect. Theoretically. It'll bounce back. It always does. Except for the one time it won't. I don't think we're there yet, but I don't think my stock options are ever going to be worth anything ever.

That's actually a good thing, Brent, it means you bought all those stocks while they were on sale! Or was it right before..? Also, you are way too optimistic. The reason for this current crash is because of trouble with the world economy especially China -- who are holding a lot of the US' debts. If they crash, we crash with them, and no-one else in the world is in a place to help us out this time. We're all fucked.

My Windows 10 upgrade had no problem recognizing my touchpad, alas.

Aw, dude, really? I hate that, and "suspension of disbelief" is my superpower has a sad

Pfff, I say, and 'pfff' again. Unashamed card-carrying member of 'vile ilk'. Oh, and in answer to your other question -- single malts are way too strong for me -- by the time I get my tolerance to that level of alcohol, I'll be dead -- and I can't drink beer, so I'll stick with my tasty, tasty watered down alcohol, thankyouverymush. I'm perfectly at peace with that. Cheers to you and yours, however wrong you may be!

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NTTAWWT! Cheers to a fellow brother pedant!

I wasn't referring to the definition, I was referring to the "...and therefore sucks..." part -- that's what he's wrong about. I could give a shit about the definition. A G&T is a cocktail, and look, right there in the name -- two ingredients. Also: I'm just being an ass, feel free to disregard. Or am I being a dick? One of the two...

What? Incorrect. No, more than incorrect, wrong. Just plain wrong.

I don't know, I'd find that more of a feature than a bug. Sorry, not helping, I know. Sorry.

I got no words, Larry, just a sympathetic 'yeezh'. As Antonio so eloquently put, I wish you both get there. Best healing wishes in a generally Western direction for you.

Sounds delicious! I would have swapped yogurt for sour cream, but not because it tastes any better. But otherwise that's like a list of my favourite spices (well, also pepper and cumin, but those wouldn't go with what you already had).

Listening to the showreel now -- thanks for getting these up so quickly, knucks. I seem to be out on Friday nights a lot these days. Poor Mark (FIRL) got furloughed recently.

Yeah, if you come up this way (DC/NoVA), I could probably meet you guys for lunch or dinner or something. If you all want to come up tonight, my friend Dave is playing at Paradiso in Alexandria from 8-midnight. It's kind of new country/throwback to Sun Studio era music, a mix of covers and originals, with two guitarists and a pedal steel guy. (Justin, you know Dave.) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCXKakQy8XCrnHD35R_crn8g

Ohnoes!!!1!ones!!! Hospitalization sounds pretty serious, hope it passes, and soon.

Using it right now -- try again?